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etherizer

etherizer noun: one who etherizes a patient.

Noun

etherizer (plural etherizers)

  1. One who etherizes a patient.
    • The dread of most etherizers is a quiet breather who may stop breathing without his notice, and requires the almost constant presence of his ear at the patient's mouth to be sure he or she is all right.1903, William Brodie, Carl Jungk, Francis Edward Stewart, The Therapeutic Gazette, page 536

Forms of etherizer

pluraletherizers

Origin of etherizer

From etherize + -er.

Questions about etherizer

What does etherizer mean?
Etherizer means one who etherizes a patient.
What part of speech is etherizer?
Etherizer is a noun.
What is the plural of etherizer?
The plural of etherizer is etherizers.

Words near etherizer in the dictionary

  1. etherists
  2. etherization
  3. etherizations
  4. etherize
  5. etherized
  6. etherizer
  7. etherizers
  8. etherizes
  9. etherizing
  10. Etherley
  11. etherlike

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